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<p><strong>Heartfelt contributions:</strong> Sallie Townsend and John Drahzal contribute to the Church World Service, which provides relief to those in need around the globe. The benevolence committee at the Altamont Reformed Church hopes to raise $1,500 by selling red paper hearts for five dollars each, from Feb. 8 through March 8.<br />
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<p>In May of 1985, the Benevolence Committee of Altamont Reformed Church heard about a special way to support the work of Church World Service, an international relief and development agency. Called “Share the Warmth,” it involved raising funds to purchase blankets for refugees and disaster victims. That year, our congregation raised $500 for that purpose. </p>
<p>Two years later, in February 1987, we held our first “Blanket Sunday” breakfast, kicking off a month-long campaign to “Blanket the World with Love.” In recent years, the campaign has expanded its scope.</p>
<p>Now known as “Blankets + (Plus),” the program provides blankets, tents, and bedding for refugees and disaster victims, as well as the tools, seeds, training, and other supplies needed for long-term recovery. Access to clean water, and adequate sanitation, trauma counseling, micro-loans, school desks and supplies, and community programs that promote sustainable development are among the projects supported by the funds we raise. </p>
<p>Last year, we raised $2,000, bringing our cumulative total to $29,268. As we close in on $30,000 during our 30th year of support for this project, we have scheduled our “Blanket Sunday Breakfast” for 9 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8.</p>
<p>Sponsored by the church’s Benevolence Committee, the breakfast is an opportunity to enjoy food and fellowship and to learn about the life-saving work of Church World Service in places like the Philippines, Haiti, Japan, Kenya, Serbia, indigenous regions of South America, and in United States communities affected by floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. </p>
<p>This year’s campaign will run from Feb. 8 through March 8. The Benevolence Committee has set a goal of raising $1,500 through the “sale” of small red hearts for $5 each. Each Sunday after worship, people can buy hearts, dedicate them “in honor of” or “in memory” of a loved one, and attach them to a large paper heart on the sanctuary wall.</p>
<p>We invite the wider Altamont community to join us for the “Blanket Sunday Breakfast” at 9 a.m. this Sunday, and if you wish, remain for the 10:30 a.m. worship service. There is no charge for the breakfast, but please call the church office at 861-8711 if you plan to attend so that adequate seating can be arranged. The church is located at 129 Lincoln Ave. and is accessible to people with handicaps via a ramp at the side door.</p>
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<p><strong>Kitt Jackson, chairwoman</strong></p>
<p><strong>Altamont Reformed Church</strong></p>
<p><strong>Benevolence Committee</strong></p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 03:21:04 +0000admin5013 at http://www.altamontenterprise.comHilarity meets holiness as villagers portray birth of Jesushttp://www.altamontenterprise.com/news/guilderland/12112014/hilarity-meets-holiness-villagers-portray-birth-jesus
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<p><strong>Teresa McNeany will play Mary</strong> in this Sunday’s Living Nativity at Altamont Reformed Church at 4:15 p.m., repeating a 2011 performance when she held her son, Zachary, as seen here. McNeany’s husband, Mike, and their new infant, Ethan, will portray Joseph and baby Jesus. Zachary will participate as a shepherd this year.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>ALTAMONT — Llamas, lambs, and a loving family will recreate a living Nativity scene during the Altamont Victorian Holiday celebration Sunday.</p>
<p>Members of the Altamont Reformed Church and other volunteers will present a 15-minute pageant complete with Scripture readings and Christmas carols. Pastor Robert Luidens will lead the nativity with readings, said director Ellen Howie.</p>
<p>The live Nativity is “a great dimension of the Victorian Holidays,” Howie said. She and her husband, Dick, have coordinated the event for the past five years, and she credited Altamont Community Tradition member Judi Dineen with the idea. </p>
<p>Each year, Teri Conroy of Wunsapana Farm in Altamont and her family bring their llamas to represent the camels of the wise men in the story, and other animals for an authentic recreation, Ellen Howie said. </p>
<p>“They have been great participants,” she said of the Conroys. </p>
<p>The animals have contributed to hilarity during the Nativities of the past, she said. </p>
<p>“One year, I was an angel. I had my back to the llamas, and the llamas were busy chewing my costume,” Howie said. </p>
<p>Another year, a little boy was supposed to hold a lamb on his lap, but he was unable to control it, she said. Howie held the lamb, instead. The unruly lamb made a mess on her twice, she said.</p>
<p>Howie, as a member of the library board at the time, was due at the library immediately after the Nativity. </p>
<p>“I had to come from a living crèche, smelling like a barn, to the library,” Howie remembered. Her sense of humor with Altamont’s Nativity reminded her of a book about an inner-city church’s pageant.</p>
<p>“We have a story to tell, and we’re going to tell it in a way that everyone can hear the Good News,” she recalled of the story. “That’s the spirit in which we present it.”</p>
<p>Howie said that the living Nativity is not a formal presentation.</p>
<p>“We’re happy that we can do it,” she said. “We see it as a great way of reaching out to the community.”</p>
<p>Audience members will receive Christmas carol sheets so they can sing along, but those who come early may be costumed and included, Howie said.</p>
<p>John and Natalie Drahzal borrow costumes from the Hilltowns Players, Howie said. “They have brought down costumes every year,” she said.</p>
<p>Teresa and Mike McNeany portrayed Mary and Joseph in 2011 with their infant son, Zachary, as baby Jesus. The McNeanys will be Mary and Joseph, again, this year, with their new baby, Ethan, in the part of Jesus. Big brother Zachary will join his grandparents as a shepherd this year, Howie said.</p>
<p>“The Girl Scouts have helped us a couple of years, and put on costumes,” Howie said. “Once we get the Holy family, the key components, everybody fills in as shepherds and angels.</p>
<p>“It’s very casual,” Howie continued. “Everybody does a little part of it. It takes a village.”</p>
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<p><em>Costuming for the Nativity begins at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, at the Altamont Reformed Church at 129 Lincoln Ave. in the village. The living Nativity begins on the church’s front lawn at 4:15 p.m.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Paging through history: </strong>Newt Ronan, left, and Lois Ginsburg look at an old Altamont Enterprise story in a book detailing church news as Altamont Reformed celebrated its 125th anniversary on Aug. 10. The church at 129 Lincoln Ave. in the village was built in 1888, and has roots reaching back to the 1700s.</p>
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<p><strong>Marimba marvel:</strong> David Luidens plays four movements of “Reflections on the Nature of Water” by Jacob Druckman during the 125th-anniversary celebration of the Altamont Reformed Church where his father, Rev. Bob Luidens, is the pastor. He graduated from Guilderland High School in 2009 and earned a bachelor’s degree at the Boston Conservatory where he majored in percussion performance. Soon, he’ll start a master’s program in orchestral percussion at the New England Conservatory.</p>
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<p><strong>Sweet treats:</strong> Eating ice cream was part of the fun at the 125th anniversary celebration of the Altamont Reformed Church on Aug. 10. Dipping in are Kylie Fagan, left, and Megan Reis. The Helderberg Church Consistory held a meeting in the brand-new church on July 15, 1888, and the building was dedicated at a service on Oct. 3, 1888</p>
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<p><strong>Joyful sound:</strong> Diane Kingsland, the minister of church music at the Altamont Reformed Church, plays the organ during the 125th anniversary celebration on Aug. 10. She is playing the sanctuary pipe organ installed around 1900 and rebuilt in 1952. Betty Ketcham, the church’s regular eianist, also played at the celebration along with violist Susan St. Amour who is a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.</p>
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<p><strong>Fair view:</strong> Russell Pokorny of Knox took this aerial view of the Altamont Fair on Friday afternoon at about 1:30 from his Cessna 150. From the sky, the concentric rings are clearly visible on the circus big top, where Marie McMillen said fairgoers flocked and were turned away to return another time. McMillen, the fair’s manager, said ticket accounting hasn’t yet been done to estimate how many people attended this year, but she believes it was more than the last year’s estimate of 50,000 paid attendees. The free-style motorcross show, Circus Hollywood, and the Disc-connected K9’s show were some of the most popular attractions, she said. “Every year, I put two more sets of bleachers there,” said McMillen of the Frisbee dog show. “It’s still just jammed with people.”</p>
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<p><strong>Standing strong:</strong> Bill Tolson, right, stands beside staffer Laurie Bosco as he tells a story about his brain injury during last Friday’s Brain Injury Awareness Day at Tawasentha Park in Guilderland. Naomi Cohen also spoke to the crowd about overcoming her injury to earn a degree from college, where she was on the dean’s list. Bosco and Tolson wear shirts with the slogan I.A.M., which stands for the path to success — injury, acceptance, and maturation.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>KNOX — Inspired by nature and a distinguished lineage, Mary Klatt resolved to meet the demands of farm life and supporting a large family.</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt died on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. She was 98.</p>
<p>Mary Etta Klatt was born on Nov. 20, 1914, in St. Paul, Minn., to the late William Coombs Manship and Mary Rose (née Kraimer) Manship. She labored with her family near Bald Eagle Lake in Minnesota, feeding and milking the animals, and weeding and hoeing their one-acre vegetable garden. Without electricity, water was pumped by hand, and an outhouse was used through 30-below Minnesota winters.</p>
<p>“One of the things she told us kids was that, because she worked so hard as a kid, she wasn't going to make us work that hard,” said her daughter, Catherine Klatt.</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt worked on dairy farms with her husband, Otto Nathan Klatt, through what their daughter described as the boom-and-bust cycle of farm income.</p>
<p>“There would be times that were very, very difficult, and Dad would be very nervous…” said Ms. Klatt. “Mom may have been worried on the inside, but she just coped. She figured out how to get by, how to do it….And she always seemed to have the inner resources to be strong in that way, that inner knowledge that, ‘Yeah, we were going to get through this,’ the inner strength to say, ‘Okay, we can't afford clothing. I’ll pull apart this old dress and remake it into a blouse for my kids.’”</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt was salutatorian of White Bear High School and studied social work at the University of Minnesota. She would attend classes for a quarter term, her daughter said, then stop to work in order to save the $25 for tuition. She became discouraged after a few years and met Mr. Klatt at a dance.</p>
<p>“Dad went up to her and Dad thought he was asking if he could sit next to her, and Mom thought he was asking if she could dance, so she stood up, and that was that,” said Ms. Klatt. They were married in 1940 and moved in with Mr. Klatt’s parents in New Brighton, Minn. After his father died of multiple sclerosis, they sold the farm and bought another in New Richmond, Wisc.</p>
<p>To Mrs. Klatt’s disappointment, they eventually sold the farm, her daughter said, because Mr. Klatt hated farming. From an early age, he did most of the physical work on the farm because his father had been disabled by his disease.</p>
<p>The Klatts opened a farm-equipment store in Centuria, a small Wisconsin village, around 1949. Mrs. Klatt was nine months pregnant with their second child and took care of bookkeeping.</p>
<p>Around seven years later, they liquidated the store and moved to Deluth, Minn., where Mr. Klatt managed a home-and-garden store. A fire burned the store, and he struggled to find stable work for six months. Mr. Klatt eventually became a territory manager for Minneapolis-Moline farm machinery company.</p>
<p>Ms. Klatt said her mother didn’t show worry, if she had it.</p>
<p>“Growing up in that farm community, I think women were like that more,” her daughter said.</p>
<p>A sense of fearlessness and willingness to try new things was a family quality. If Mrs. Klatt’s children wanted to ride their bikes around Bald Eagle Lake, if they wanted to build a fort, if her son wanted to spend his time experimenting with electricity in their basement, or her daughter had to keep dead animals in their freezer to study later, it was all fine.</p>
<p>Ms. Klatt attributed her mother’s resolve to her being raised in a depressed economy and working on farms.</p>
<p>“Part of it came from her parents. Her mother had had a very difficult life and was very much the strong, stoic German, and so she learned that way of coping with life: you just do it,” Ms. Klatt said. There was also an expectation of excellence, being a Manship. She was proud of her heritage, which included a great-grandfather who was the mayor of Jackson, Miss. when it was surrendered during the Civil War. She had a poet, an artist, and a world-famous sculptor, Paul Manship, among her relatives.</p>
<p>Ms. Klatt said her mother refused to join the Daughters of the American Revolution after the DAR wouldn’t let African-American singer Marian Anderson perform in its Constitution Hall, leading to her famous performance in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt’s mother and mother-in-law lived with the Klatts. “There were nine of us in this tiny house,” her daughter said. “So it was a very full, very rich way to grow up.”</p>
<p>Mr. Klatt’s mother, who baked bread for the house, had been a teacher in the Dakotas and told stories of getting lost in blizzards and being chased by bulls.</p>
<p>Family dinners were quiet, Mrs. Klatt said, but Mr. Klatt was a fiddle player at dances and played music with his family. They sometimes played arrangements of Christmas songs together, with trombones, a clarinet, piano, and Mr. Klatt on the violin.</p>
<p>“Oh, it was horrible,” said Ms. Klatt.</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt read widely, with a collection of old books inherited from her parents when she moved back to their home on Bald Eagle Lake around 1960. Ms. Klatt guessed that her mother’s passion for books came from her own mother, who educated herself by reading after she dropped out of school after third grade. As she grew older, her daughters, Lois and Catherine, invited her to live with them in Knox, where she spent her last 17 years. She was excited to be in a new place, her daughter said, and she was connected to the Altamont Reformed Church.</p>
<p>They went on trips together, including camping on Cape Cod.</p>
<p>“There she was in her seventies, sleeping on an air mattress that flattened in the middle of the night, and she loved it, too,” said Ms. Klatt.</p>
<p>Mrs. Klatt had a deep affection for nature and animals, especially her daughters’ retired racing greyhound, Viya. In her later years, when Mrs. Klatt was in a wheelchair, her daughters took her down Quay Road to look at the wildflowers blooming.</p>
<p>“She inspired others with her caring and gentle nature and her wisdom…” her family wrote in a tribute. “She was a sweet woman who was inspired by nature.” </p>
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<p><em>Mary Etta Klatt (née Manship) is survived by her children, Richard and his wife, Patte; Barbara; Lois; William and his wife, Linda; and Catherine. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Stella; her nine grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and a gracious family. </em></p>
<p><em>Her sister, Florence, died before her, as did her brothers, Bill, Paul, and Edward, and her husband, Otto Nathan Klatt. </em></p>
<p><em>A memorial service will be held at the Honsa Family Funeral in White Bear Lake, Minn. on Saturday, Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. with a calling hour at 10 a.m. Earlier calling hours will be Friday, Aug. 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. </em></p>
<p><em>Mrs. Klatt had a life-long wish that no one go hungry. Memorial donations may be made to Union Gospel Mission Department of Donor Services, 77 Ninth Street East Saint Paul, MN 55101, or to a food pantry of choice. </em></p>
<p><em>— Marcello Iaia </em><em> </em></p>
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<p>Free ice cream sundaes will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10.</p>
<p>Guests will be invited to take a self-guided tour of the historical church building and to listen to musicians performing in the sanctuary:</p>
<p>— At 6:30 p.m.: Diane Kingsland, ARC’s Minister of Church Music, will play the sanctuary pipe organ installed circa 1900 and rebuilt in 1952. She is an accomplished organist and popular music teacher in the village;</p>
<p>— At 7 p.m.: Betty Ketcham and Susan St. Amour will play piano-violin duets. Ketcham is ARC’s regular pianist and St. Amour has performed in many venues across the Capital District as a member of the Albany Symphony; and</p>
<p>— At 7:30 p.m.: David Luidens will play four movements of a marimba piece entitled “Reflections on the Nature of Water” by Jacob Druckman.</p>
<p>He is the son of Rev. Bob and Dr. Mary Luidens and graduated from Guilderland High School in 2009. He completed his bachelor’s degree in May at the Boston Conservatory, where he majored in percussion performance. This fall, he will begin a master’s degree program in orchestral percussion at the New England Conservatory as a student of Will Hudgins, assistant principal percussionist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.</p>
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